Book layout

[Lehofer, Meinhard]

Søren Hauberg schrieb:

> Hi Everybody
> I recently converted my father to linux.
> My father is an architect and is about to write a book about his 
> research. This being a book on architecture means there will be a lot 
> of photographies and not that much text.
>
> Now my question is what kind of software should I recommend him? 
> OpenOffice.org/AbiWord seems to be more concerned with the text than 
> the layout so I don't think that's a very good choice.
>
> I know I'm being very precise here, but that's because I don't really 
> know what I'm looking for.
>
> Thanks (and a merry Christmas to those of you that celebrate Christmas)
> /Søren
>
Try Scribus, it's a Desktop Publishing Programme (DTP) like Quark Xpress 
or Adobe Indesign. It is included in the Ubuntu repositories (Universe, 
i think). The developer team was talking about releasing a new version 
this year (1.21).

More Information: www.scribus.net
You can subscribe to their mailing list as well, people are very 
freindly and helpful.